Chord Cod Liver Oil by Great Big Sea

a wonderfully haunting song from gbs’s 2005 traditional album , "the hard and the easy" . - standard tuning - - no capo - - chords played as follows : - Dm : xx0231 C : x32010 G/B : x20010 Am : x02210 intro Dm , C x2 verse 1 Dm C Dm i’m a young married man and i’m tired of life , C G/B Am ten years i’ve been wed to a pale sickly wife , Dm C she’s nothing to do only sit there and cry , Dm C Am Dm praying and praying to god she would die . verse 2 a friend of my own came to see me one day , he told me my wife she was pining away , he afterwards told me that she would get strong , if i get a bottle from dear dr john . chorus Dm oh doctor , oh doctor , oh dear dr . john , C C/B Am your cod liver oil is so pure and so strong , Dm C i’m afraid of my life , i’ll go down in the soil , Dm C Am Dm if me wife don’t stop drinking your cod liver oil . instrumental Dm , C x2 verse 3 i bought her a bottle , well just for to try , and the way that she drank it you’d think she might die , i bought her another , it vanished the same , and then she got cod liver oil on the brain . verse 4 i bought her another , she drank it no doubt , and then she began to get terrible stout , and when she got stout well of course she got strong , and i became jealous of dear dr john . chorus oh doctor , oh doctor , oh dear dr . john , your cod liver oil is so pure and so strong , i’m afraid of my life , i’ll go down in the soil , if me wife don’t stop drinking your cod liver oil . instrumental Dm , C x4 verse 5 me house it resembles a great doctor’s shop its covered in bottles from bottom to top well early the morning the kettle does boil you would swear it was singing of cod liver oil . chorus oh doctor , oh doctor , oh dear dr , john , your cod liver oil is so pure and so strong , i’m afraid of my life , i’ll go down in the soil , if me wife don’t stop drinking , oh doctor , oh doctor , oh dear dr . john , your cod liver oil is so pure and so strong , i’m afraid of my life , i’ll go down in the soil , if me wife don’t stop drinking your cod liver oil . outro Dm , C x4